Names in Hebrew

Timothy in Hebrew

Written

טימות׳י

With the vowels

טִימוֹתִ׳י

Read from right to left.

Letter by letter

  1. טִt
  2. יi
  3. מm
  4. וֹo
  5. תִ׳th
  6. יi

Why these letters

The th sound is written ת with an apostrophe, ת׳. The t is written with ט, as usual in foreign names. The o and u sounds are written with ו.

More names

Want to read Hebrew yourself?

The free reading course teaches the letters and the vowels in fifteen steps: in a few weeks you read your name and everything else.